February 5, 2010 – 10:03 pm
Remember the San Diego Unified School District’s (SDUSD) corrupt move to require project labor agreements (PLAs) on all construction projects funded by the voter-approved $2.1 billion proposition S? Big Labor said the PLAs would help control costs and guarantee a local workforce.
As predicted, the PLA has already failed to deliver on Big Labor’s promises:
WINNING BID IS [...]
January 7, 2010 – 5:59 am
Sensing that 2010 might be a tough year for Big Labor and their special interest allies in San Diego area, it appears that local union bosses are not in the mood to celebrate. And they decided to ruin the fun for everyone else too.
Here is an excerpt from Michael M. Rosen’s commentary published in the [...]
November 25, 2009 – 12:46 pm
Not to be outdone by their neighbors in Chula Vista, San Diego residents – led by City Councilman Carl DeMaio – kicked off their campaign to bring fair and open competition to San Diego’s city contracting. Construction stakeholders gathered with Councilman DeMaio to start the drive to gather the 96,000 signatures needed to put the [...]
October 14, 2009 – 3:47 pm
The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) is getting more resistance to their effort to discriminate against the vast majority of California’s private construction workforce that decided not to join a labor union. The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has filed a claim against the SDUSD arguing that the project stabilization agreement (PSA [...]
August 26, 2009 – 12:28 pm
There are several interesting developments in the fight for open competition in San Diego.
San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Superintendent Terry Grier’s decision to take a new job in Houston, TX is no surprise to the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board, who blame the local teachers union and their labor allies for pushing Mr. Grier [...]
August 12, 2009 – 5:21 pm
The Bulletin continued to cover the Pennsylvania Department of General Services’ decision to require a PLA on the $400 million Graterford prison project. Additionally, the Southeast Pennsylvania chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors launched a marketing campaign to inform the public about the impact of the Graterford prison project PLA on local workers and the [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged ABC California, Benner Township, California, Graterford, Pennsylvania, PLAs, Press Conference, Prisons, Project Labor Agreements, Rendell, Rockview, SavePropS.com, SDUSD, Union-only PLAs harm local workers
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Associated General Contractors (AGC) - San Diego filed a lawsuit July 30 against the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD). The suit claims that provisions in the project stabilization agreement (a PLA by another name) approved by the School Board prevent non-union apprentices from working on projects funded by the $2.1 billion voter-approved Proposition S bond and amount to discrimination. In [...]
After twelve years of fighting Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) at local governments in California, I’ve developed a set of axioms based on my experiences. One of these axioms is that PLAs are about politics, not logic. After all, what kind of logic would lead an elected official to establish work conditions that would discourage perfectly [...]
By Kevin Dayton
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Tagged ABC California, California, Federal Contracting, Greenmail, Kentucky, PLA Axioms, PLA Fact, San Diego, SavePropS.com, School Construction, SDUSD
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While much of this week’s attention focued on Obama administration attempts to encourage federal department and agency heads to utilize wasteful and discriminatory union-only project labor agreements, there have been PLA developments at the state and local levels that warrent attention as well.
In Trumbull, CT subcontractors for the Trumbull High School renovation/reconstruction project have been selected. The local construction unions’ are upset [...]
By Andy Conlin
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Tagged California, Connecticut, Editorial, Executive Order 13502, Greenmail, Hospital Construction, Legal Challenge, OMB Memo, PLAs, Project Labor Agreements, San Diego, SavePropS.com, School Construction, SDUSD
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In a July 6 editorial, the San Diego Union-Tribune continues to hammer the San Diego Unified School District’s decision to utilize a wasteful and discriminatory union-only project labor agreements on school construction paid for by the $2.1 billion Proposition S. Here is an excerpt:
Approving a PLA would be a betrayal of San Diego Unified’s 132,000 [...]
